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When it comes to flinging a football and blowing off steam, nobody puts it together better than Jim McMahon. So the Chicago Bears quarterback was a natural to talk about stress for Connections, a biweekly series of billboard topics posted in 1,500 high schools around the country. Despite the munching pose he struck for one poster, McMahon rarely takes it out on the ball. His tips for coping with strain: "I never really worry about things before they happen. I let things happen and I deal with them then . . . It's important to keep your sense of humor...
...label is rarely heard on the radio, and it advertises only occasionally. Instead, it relies on word of mouth among its target audience of young white professionals. It must be doing something right: Pianist George Winston, perhaps the best known of its largely faceless roster, has been on Billboard's Top 40 jazz chart a total of 184 weeks with his album December, a user-friendly amalgam of Bach, Satie and Jazzman Keith Jarrett...
...scanned the American scene more faithfully or brought such a compelling if fractured narrative out of its weird slippages and layerings of imagery? In the heyday of pop art, there was more stress on Rosenquist's means and less on his ends. One saw the devices from advertising, the billboard manner; one felt affronted by its "vulgarity" and by the schematic thinness and neatness of the paint, so heartless looking when compared with the thick, spontaneous and (it was assumed) emotionally stronger surface of late abstract expressionism. None of that seems a problem anymore. Rosenquist's ingenuities $ as a formal...
Born in North Dakota in 1933, Rosenquist backed into being a painter through grass-roots advertising: he started painting Phillips 66 signs for a Minnesota paint contractor and gradually moved up to supporting himself as a billboard artist in New York City in the 1950s. Turning out these mammoth images, high above the city streets, had the most obvious connection to his later art: the problem of how you make something that looks perfectly realistic a quarter- mile away when you are close up against it and cannot see it as a whole. The huge fragmentary paintings...
...opener to most Americans, who rarely reflect on the quantity of slang and colloquialisms they use. Even the President talks about making some foreign government "say uncle" (an expression from the Irish anacol, meaning mercy). Non-slang can baffle by its seeming want of logic. Is a billboard a board on which you stick a bill? Jingle? "Is that an Irish song?" a student asked. "What does it mean," another wondered, "to kick...